Definition of "stemmatics" []

• The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original. (noun)

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• "I tend to think that only people doing stemmatics and philology get it right because no claim to the "right" reading can be confirmed or rejected."
• "Indeed, it has not borrowed its concepts from classical stemmatics or even from phylogenetics in biology, which have been tested and found to be robust over many different applications."